Bharat Ratna Award Winners List 2014

Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award India. Bharat Ratna means Gem of India or Jewel of India. Bharat Ratna was first awarded in the year 1954. Any person can be eligible to get this award from PM of India without distinction of race, position and occupation.

Here is a list of bharat ratna awardees:

Name

Awarded

Notes

C. N. R. Rao[8][9]

2014

Scientist

Sachin Tendulkar[8][9]

2014

Cricket player

Lata Mangeshkar

2001

Playback singer

Bismillah Khan

2001

Hindustani classical shehnai player

Bhimsen Joshi

2009

Hindustani classical singer

Ravi Shankar

1999

Sitar player from Calcutta

Amartya Sen

1999

Economist from Kolkata and a Nobel laureate

Gopinath Bordoloi

1999

Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister of Assam

M. S. Subbulakshmi

1998

Carnatic classical singer

Chidambaram Subramaniam

1998

Independence activist, Minister of Agriculture

Jayaprakash Narayan

1998

Posthumous, independence activist and politician

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

1997

Aeronautical Engineer,11th President of India

Gulzarilal Nanda

1997

Independence activist, interim Prime Minister

Aruna Asaf Ali

1997

Posthumous, independence activist

Abul Kalam Azad

1992

Posthumous, independence activist, first Minister of Education

J. R. D. Tata

1992

Industrialist and philanthropist

Satyajit Ray

1992

Bengali Filmmaker

Rajiv Gandhi

1991

Posthumous, Sixth Prime Minister.

Vallabhbhai Patel

1991

Posthumous, independence activist

Morarji Desai

1991

Independence activist, fourth Prime Minister

B. R. Ambedkar

1990

Posthumous, Chief architect of the Indian Constitution

Nelson Mandela

1990

Second non-citizen and non-Indian recipient

M. G. Ramachandran

1988

Posthumous, film actor, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

1987

First non-citizen, independence activist

Vinoba Bhave

1983

Posthumous, social reformer, independence activist

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

1980

Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata and Nobel laureate

K. Kamaraj

1976

Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu State

V. V. Giri

1975

Trade unionist and fourth President of India

Indira Gandhi

1971

Third Prime Minister, first female Prime Minister of India (1966–1977,1980–1984)

Lal Bahadur Shastri

1966

Posthumous, independence activist, second Prime Minister

Zakir Hussain

1963

Independence activist, Scholar, third President

Pandurang Vaman Kane

1963

Indologist and Sanskrit scholar

Rajendra Prasad

1962

Independence activist, jurist, first President

Bidhan Chandra Roy

1961

Physician, Chief Minister of West Bengal

Purushottam Das Tandon

1961

Independence activist, educator

Dhondo Keshav Karve

1958

Educator, social reformer

Govind Ballabh Pant

1957

Independence activist, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Home Minister

Bhagwan Das

1955

Independence activist, author, Founder of Kashi Vidya Peeth

Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya

1955

Civil engineer, Diwan of Mysore

Jawaharlal Nehru

1955

Independence activist, author, first Prime Minister

ajagopalachari

1954

Independence activist, last and the only Indian Governor-General of India